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A man wanted for lying to officials and hiding money in his divorce proceeding was recently hauled back from Las Vegas to face criminal charges.

Said Mobin, 67, was booked into the Columbia County Detention Center on March 26 for false swearing and two counts of contempt of court. Mobin fled while in divorce proceedings with his wife, a Pakistani native 32 years his junior, who testified that she was forced to marry him and lived through his forced isolation and severe mental and physical abuse for more than a decade.

Wildwood Park will be the site of an annual sports festival with the inaugural event scheduled for August.

Randy DuTeau, the executive director of the Columbia County Convention and Visitors Bureau announced Friday that the Wildwood Games sports festival will take place Aug. 23-24 at the park in Appling. it will feature marathon mountain bike races, trail running races and an outdoors expo.

The 17-year-old suspected in the shotgun killing of her father waived her right to formal extradition proceedings Monday in Augusta and will be returned to face charges in North Carolina.

In a brief hearing before Judge Stephen Shepard, Assistant Public Defender Muneer Awad said he had consulted with Crystal Brooke Howell and she had agreed to waive extradition. Howell, shackled and dressed in an orange- and white-striped jumpsuit, acknowledged she had agreed to return to her home state, signed a waiver and was led out of the courtroom.

The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident reports:

Stolen dog taken to vet

A Grovetown man said someone stole his dog, then took it to a local veterinarian’s office as their own.

The 37-year-old man said he let the dog outside to do his business on March 14, but the dog never returned. The man said he got a call on March 20 from an animal recovery service, which stated his dog had been located and he needed to contact the Grovetown Animal Clinic.